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Deanna Kolell

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Volunteers needed!

The CCE is looking for student volunteers for two core programs beginning this term!

Transportation is provided, and you can volunteer with friends. These volunteer opportunities look great on a resume, too!

Visit the CCE if you have any questions.

First of Many

First of Many is a mentoring opportunity for future first-generation college students (current high school juniors).

  • Use your experience to mentor first-gen students in Appleton and Kaukauna high schools.
  • Help educate students on topics like the application process, financial aid, choosing a college, etc.
  • No experience necessary; your perspectives are valued!
  • 1 hour/week

Sign up today!

VITAL Program

VITAL is a tutoring opportunity for all grades and subject levels.

  • VITAL helps combat educational inequities by providing the only free tutoring option in the area for students.
  • Located conveniently right on campus.
  • Tutoring is based on your schedule and the subjects you are interested in.

Sign up today!

Communications SharePoint – Fonts

The Communications SharePoint site is your one-stop-shop for resources and best practices related to brand and visuals!

Download official logos, submit project request forms, learn about official fonts and colors, and so much more.

Pro Tip of the Week

Fonts

Typography (another word for fonts) is used to identify and distinguish an organization. Used consistently in all university communications, typography assures that Lawrence is easily and quickly recognized.

University-approved Typefaces

University-approved typefaces must be used for all other university communications. A primary and a secondary serif typeface and a primary and secondary sans serif typeface are available for use by staff and faculty in printed university communications materials.

Serif typefaces have small lines/tails attached to them.
Sans serif typefaces do not.

You can see the difference in common typefaces like Times New Roman (serif) and Arial (sans serif).
 PrimaryAthletics AlternativeSystem AlternativeWeb Alternative
HeadlineIvyPresto Headline*HudsonDido, Times New RomanDido
Sub-headSporting GrotesqueUnited SansVerdana Verdana 
ParagraphVerdana VerdanaVerdana Verdana 
*Requires an Adobe Creative Cloud license. If you do not have a license, please use the System Alternative. If you have an account, please log into Adobe Creative Cloud using your network account and download it in the Fonts app.

Arial and Calibri are reserved for email and other electronic communications. Staff and faculty should change their default email settings to Arial for email text. Similarly, they should create a default email signature format using the Lawrence logo

Read more on the Communications SharePoint site!

Join EXPLOREsophoMORE!

The EXPLOREsophoMORE (EXso) program brings together a small group of sophomore students for a weekly dinner catered from various local restaurants, activities, and dialogue.

This program focuses on the unique challenges sophomore students face, including topics like community, identity, and belonging.

Visit this webpage for more information about the program or fill out this form to join. Please let us know if you’re interested no later than January 19, either by filling out the form above or emailing Asher at asher.b.mcmullin@lawrence.edu.

Spoerl Lecture Series

Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin

Thursday, Jan. 11 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz Hall 102

Karen Lutsky and Sean Burkholder will present excerpts and insights from their recently published book, Five Bay Landscapes: Curious Explorations of the Great Lakes Basin.

Both landscape architecture professors who have been working and studying the shorelines for many years, the book shares their practice of exploring and “meeting” five different bays within the basin as richly layered and complex places. Through a mix of theory, history, experiential documentation, and representational methods, the book shares their explorations of each bay; and argues for pluralistic and transcalar methods of knowledge creation in order to better design with these critical, dynamic places.

Major Fellowships Workshop for Wriston and West Scholars

Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Main Hall 401

Wriston and West scholarships are awarded to Lawrence students of “exceptional promise.” Fellowships, which fund incredible opportunities like research, study abroad, and public service, can help you live out that promise.

Come to this workshop to learn about what fellowships are, the benefits of applying, and even get a small start writing a personal statement.

Dance Series: setGO

Performance

Friday, Jan. 19 | 7-8:30 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Esch Hurvis

Workshop

Saturday, Jan. 20 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Warch Campus Center – Esch Hurvis

SET GO is a Contact Improvisation Research and Performance ensemble founded in 2016 by dancers Shura Baryshnikov, Aaron Brando, Paul Singh, Bradley Teal Ellis, and Sarah Konner. Though all are interdisciplinary artists, each identifies Contact Improvisation as a primary practice and are lead researchers and educators in the field, both nationally and internationally. Collectively, setGO has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for over 60 years.

The setGO ensemble shares a love for whimsical, whole-hearted, virtuosic improvisation; they have been dance-making together since 2009. The group has performed at the Moving Arts Lab (Earthdance, MA), the RISD Museum Open Rehearsals, for the Institute for the Study of Environment and the Society at Brown University, Providence Fringe Festival, and the Everybody Moves Festival at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. They have developed pedagogy together as part of the CI Ground Research laboratory project since 2010.

In addition to directing their own companies, setGO artists have danced with other choreographers and companies including Amy Chavasse, Heidi Henderson, Chris Aiken, Faye Driscoll, Douglas Dunn, Gabriel Forestieri, and Headlong Dance Theater, and are currently on faculty, as well as artist-residents at universities across the United States. Members of the ensemble teach at acclaimed dance festivals nationally and internationally and offer regular classes in their local areas.

PhilosoTea

Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 2-3 p.m.
International House

Join Asher from Spiritual and Religious Life and Vijay from Wellness Services in casual conversations about a wide range of topics, with the goal of learning to think and speak more deeply about important issues. We will also have tea!

Guest-Faculty Recital

Nancy Zeltman, marimba
Jean Carlo Ureña González, percussion

Wednesday, Jan. 10 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel

Nancy Zeltsman is a professor at joint institutions Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She has taught marimba at both schools since 1993 in positions that were created for her. Since 2013, she has been regular guest professor of marimba at Conservatorium van Amsterdam; since 2021, a Guest Artist teaching two weeks per year at University of Michigan; and from fall 2023, a Visiting Lecturer at Boston University School of Music.

Nancy first came to prominence as the marimbist of the duo Marimolin. She has presented master classes at institutions across the United States and Europe, and in Japan, China, Mexico and Brazil – including The Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Lawrence Conservatory of Music (Appleton, WI), Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal College of Music (London), Académie supérieure de musique (Strasbourg, France), and Escola Superior de Música (Lisbon, Portugal). She has performed or presented at 12 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and at PAS chapter events in 17 states and Stockholm, Sweden. Performance venues have included the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Ravinia Festival, subscription concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall (New York), Shenzhen Concert Hall (China), and Harmony Hall (Fukui, Japan).

This event is free and open to the public.